Crossing Case in High Court
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• • -IE case of a Nottingham trolleybus driver whose vehicle struck a man a pedestrian crossing came before d Parker, Lord Chief Justice, in the en's Bench Division last week.
aid Guyler Lawton, the driver, had charged before Nottingham magiswith failing to accord precedence to lestrian on a crossing, but they d that he had no case to answer. ugh Court, however, remitted the ri them with an intimation that there case to answer.
lanuary. Lawton was approaching ossing, but could see only half of it te of a reversing lorry. Unknown to him, an elderly man, with had sight and hearing, was on the crossing and did not slop as the trolleybus bore down on him.
The magistrates stated that as Lawton could not see the man, and because the movement of other traffic did not indicate that the crossing was being used, the driver was entitled to proceed at the slow speed at which he was said to be moving.
The prosecution appealed against this opinion, and Lord Parker said that it was the duty of a driver to approach a crossing so that he could stop should anyone, unseen to him, be on it Mr. Justice Ashworth and Mr. Justice Paull agreed.